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rvs0002:
Howdy folks! After finishing my MAME cab last winter, I decided this winter's project was going to be a sit down racer. I found a used G27 kit along with a car seat and steel frame on craigslist for $275 (see pics), so I'm off to a good start. I'm just now digging into all the posts here (special thanks to BadMouth who has already answered a question or two behind the scenes).

I've got a few games up and running on Model 2, but haven't put much time into it yet. I really want to get HydroThunder working as it is a game my son and I grew up playing together a lot, so it would be special to be able to play that together again in our own hand built cab. I'm afraid to put too much work in getting the games to work or we'll spend every night playing and not enough time building. I also want to figure out how to run a dual system using both a pc and either a PS3 or Xbox. I can't imagine it's to hard...maybe just a usb switch or something?

Last but not least, if anyone has any good leads on plans, please let me know. For my MAME cab I used Ond's awesome plans as a starter which were great. I have a general idea of what I want to do, but I'm not the best woodworker so having some plans to refer to really goes a long way.

Hoping to get my wood and start the build this weekend, so will be posting pics soon! For now, back to reading and learning.

rvs0002:
Well, pretty much got the Model 2 games I wanted working except for a few that have missing files and got my coin/start/shifter settings working as well. Would go much quicker if I didn't stop to play all the time.

Probably a stupid question, but is the clutch used for shifting on any games, or just not on the Model 2 stuff? 

Started looking into front ends, and will probably move into that next. I really like the MALA front end that BadMouth had in an older post, that looked sharp. Don't really want to invest the time to get Hyperspin up and running. Tried that with my Mame cab and it was a nightmare and I never could get it to work right. I ended up going with mGalaxy for that and it works pretty well. Would like all my games to be together though, so I still have some reading to do on that (as well as other games, emulators, and on and on!!! So much reading...).

I would still like to incorporate the PS3 as well. Is there a thread for how to run the dual setup? I did some searching but haven't found anything yet. I was thinking of just putting an hdmi splitter/selector box in and using that, but there is probably a better way as it seems like many people are running dual set-ups.

We've got a break in the cold spell here for a while, so I'm hoping to start on my cab build next week. I'm still trying to decide if I want to order a set of Ricmotech RS-1 Build plans and modify them, or just try free wheeling it. I'm leaning more towards free wheeling it even though my skills are pretty limited. I don't know how to use sketch up so I'll probably try to photoshop something and then cardboard it up this weekend.

Happy racing!
John

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: rvs0002 on January 14, 2016, 12:05:23 pm ---Probably a stupid question, but is the clutch used for shifting on any games, or just not on the Model 2 stuff? 

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Not many. Hard Drivin/Race Drivin, SF Rush, and Ridge Racer off the top of my head, but there are versions of both that do not require the clutch.
Most PC sim racers can use it if you want to, but don't require it.

Not sure which front-end to recommend.
Howard came up with one specific to driving cabs, but I haven't taken the time to try it:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,141041.msg1459529.html#msg1459529

The good thing about Mala is that you can trick it into putting all the games in the MAME list regardless of emulator.
That is a PITA if you aren't already familiar with how everything works though.
I always wanted to do a tutorial specific to all the driving games, but since Mala no longer works with newer version of MAME without workarounds I'm not sure it's worth it.

rvs0002:
Went ahead and went with mGalaxy for now since it's simple. Might change it up later.

Finally started building tonight. I just made the base but I figured doing something was better than nothing. Doing it actually gave me some ideas, so I'm glad I jumped in. Hope to carpet the base tomorrow and then start on the backside enclosure.

I know this isn't as exciting as most of the builds here but as long as I keep posting it motivates me to keep going!

rvs0002:
Got the sides cut out. Cut 4 of them as they will be about 9 inches wide (like an arm rest). The right side will hold the shifter and on the left I'll have the often maligned cup holder. Still need to cut out the back which will contain the back speakers. The front will be shaped like your basic arcade cab and will hold the monitor, pc,front speakers and ps3. It all makes sense in my head of I can just get it out of there and actually put it together!

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